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Islam, politics and pluralism : theory and practice in Turkey, Jordan, Tunisia and Algeria / Jennifer Noyon.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Noyon, Jennifer C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islam and politics--Middle East--20th century.
- Islam and politics.
- Islam and politics--Africa, North--20th century.
- Islam and state--Middle East--20th century.
- Islam and state.
- North Africa.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 134 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Royal Institute of International Affairs, Middle East Programme ; Washington, DC : Distributed by Brookings Institution, [2003]
- Summary:
- "A valuable, accessible, and timely introduction to events and movements that lie behind the headlines of atrocity and terror, and which will enhance understanding of our dangerously polarized world." -- Karen Armstrong, author of Islam: A Short History
- Contents:
- Part I The Context
- 1 Islam, politics and pluralism 3
- Democratization: Take One 3
- The Islamic resurgence and political Islam 6
- Political Islam and democracy 7
- 2 Islam: timeless message, changing times 9
- Diversity, unity and justice 10
- Government 10
- Opposition politics 11
- Islam and civil society 12
- Ottoman reforms 13
- The Arab Awakening 14
- From modernization theory to practice: Turkey's brave new world 15
- The triumph of philosophical positivism 16
- The secular nation-state and Islamic resistance 17
- The persistence of Islamic influence 18
- 3 The intellectual divide: Islamists versus secularists 20
- No true secularism 22
- The meaning of secularism 23
- Beleaguered secularists 24
- The Islamist argument 27
- Arab Islamists 27
- Other modernizers 28
- Turkish Islamists 28
- Whither the intellectual elite? 31
- 4 'Islam is the solution': commonalities and differences among Islamic movements 32
- What they share, how they differ 33
- Violence in Islamic movements 34
- The qualities of political Islam 34
- Types of contemporary Islamic thought and practice 37
- The Salafi movement 37
- The Turkish tarikats 39
- Iranian Islamic revolutionary theory 40
- 5 Political Islam, democratic pluralism and repression 41
- Whose Islam, and whose democracy? 42
- Democratic shortfalls and accommodations 43
- Developing democratic practice 44
- Characteristics of Islamist movements conducive to multi-party participation 46
- Objections to allowing Islamists to participate 47
- Part II Country Studies
- 6 Islamism and secularism in Turkey 53
- The emergence of secularist Turkey 55
- A new identity 56
- Shallow roots in the countryside 58
- Eroding Ataturkism 58
- Attempts at synthesis 59
- Modernity and the Islamic resurgence 60
- Socio-economic factors 62
- Secularists in shock 63
- The role of Sufism 65
- The Nakshibendis 67
- Freedom of conscience 68
- Conservatives, pragmatists and multi-party politics 69
- Erbakan, the power behind the parties 71
- Turkey's Islamist parties 72
- Origins of the Welfare Party 73
- Welfare Party values 74
- Welfare Party practice 75
- Welfare Party cadres 76
- Threatening democracy 76
- The Justice and Development Party
- implications of the Turkish 'experiment' 79
- 7 Islam and the Jordanian monarchy 81
- Hashemite roots and the early state 82
- An evolving relationship 83
- The Muslim Brotherhood 83
- Relations with other national branches 85
- Role in political liberalization 86
- The GulfWar and after 88
- The Islamic Action Front Party 88
- New roles for Islamists 90
- Looking ahead 92
- 8 Tunisia's 'managed democracy' 94
- From beylik to republic 95
- Independence and Westernization 96
- Tunisia and authoritarianism 98
- Tunisian Islamism 99
- Rashid Ghannouchi and An-Nahda 100
- Ben Ali and the Islamists 102
- Regional crisis and political repression 104
- Anti-Islamist crackdown 105
- Mass trials, human rights abuses 106
- Islamism on hold 109
- 9 All or nothing in Algeria 111
- Islam and Algerian identity 112
- Islamists in the new regime 114
- A falling out 116
- Regime failings 117
- The emergence of the FIS 118
- The FIS, a government-recognized political party and voice for change 120
- 'Islam is the solution' 122
- The first FIS victory: municipal elections of June 1990 124
- Heading towards a parliamentary victory, December 1991/January 1992 126
- The experiment fails 127
- A human rights tragedy 129
- Bitter fruits of defeat 131.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1862030685
- OCLC:
- 54378643
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